1 - The word "lobotomy" means "cut a brain wolf", which means that: take a piece of the brain

Brain, this beautiful.

2 - In the early 20th century, many psychiatrists recommended to their patients a frontal lobotomy of the brain, with the intention of relieving symptoms of disease.

Oh yes of course. Cut it there, doctor.

3 - The procedure is now performed more in North America than anywhere else in the world - and yes, lobotomies are still done, but with less risk.

Today at least you have anesthesia.

4 - The creator of the procedure, Friederich Golz, lobotomized his dogs as a child. Years later, in 1892, he subjected six schizophrenic patients to lobotomies - those who survived had improved symptoms.

Friederich Golz himself.

5 Other researchers, however, do not credit the invention of lobotomy to Golz, but to neurologist John Fulton, who noted that a chimpanzee was much calmer after undergoing surgery that severed the connections between his frontal lobe and the areas. of the brain that are responsible for controlling emotions

John Fulton

6 - The first lobotomy performed on a person took place on November 12, 1935, when Portuguese neurosurgeon Almeida Lima used alcohol to destroy part of a patient's brain tissue.

Alcohol? Good!

7 - Lima performed the surgery thanks to the idea of ​​colleague Egas Moniz, who would become a Nobel Prize winner for discovering the therapeutic value of the procedure in patients with some psychiatric disorders.

Egas Moniz.

8 - Initially, lobotomies were performed with the help of ice picks - sometimes from the doctors' own kitchen. The tip of the material was brought to the brain by a perforation made behind the patient's eyes. Once the tip reached the brain, the doctor spun around and pulled out a piece of tissue - zero precision, right? Needless to say: anesthesia? Of course not

It sounds like a horror movie, but it's just the old medicine anyway.

9 - Do you know the worst part? The procedure was long, bizarre, painful, and done to people who were supposedly "mentally ill." The doctors who performed these lobotomies even admitted that there was no brain difference between the tissues of “healthy” people and those of patients with such “mental illnesses”.

"Open your eyes, please, I'll do a big damage to your brain."

10 Famous neurosurgeon Walter Freeman has performed 3, 500 lobotomies in 23 US states over the course of his career. Many of these patients died, obviously

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11 - Modernist artist Sigrid Hjertén was diagnosed as schizophrenic, admitted to a psychiatric hospital and submitted to lobotomy. She died in 1948 from surgery

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12 - In Sweden, where Hjertén was from, at least 4, 500 people underwent lobotomy between 1944 and 1966, with most patients being women.

After all women are crazy.

One of the first famous people to undergo the procedure was actor Warner Baxter, who underwent a lobotomy to treat arthritis pain but died shortly after surgery.

At the time, he was the highest paid actor in Hollywood.

14 - Former US President John F. Kennedy's father thought his daughter, Rosemary Kennedy, was too rebellious and did not “fit in” with her family. So, without telling anyone, he hired a doctor to have his daughter undergo a lobotomy. The procedure, which was performed when she was 23, left the young woman completely incapacitated. Rosemary spent the rest of her life hidden from the public in a Catholic institution, cared for by nuns. Ironically, she was the only child to die from natural causes in 2005.

Happy family.

Despite all this, Walter Freeman considered the procedure "a success" and called the "small detail" the fact that his patients had to relearn how to walk and talk after the lobotomy - when they didn't die, of course.

Really successful. SQN.

* Posted on 12/04/2016